Legging.



E. P. DEHLER.

LBGGING.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 11, 1913.

Patented Mar. 23, 1915.

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ATTORNEY ITE , srArs rnTnNr"]o EDWAR PQD HLER, or sr. JOSEPH,ivrrssounr.

LEGGING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

'Paae ama. 23, 1915.

Application filed February 11, 1913. Serial No. 747,596.

' To all whom it may concern Be it knownthat LEDWARD P. DEHLER,

a citizen of the United States of America,

residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Leggings, of whichthe following is a speck fication.

The object of my invention is chiefly to produce a lace and springlegging in which the use of hooks is entirely dispensed with, thatsecures a perfect fit to'the leg and in which the liability of thelacing becoming loosened from hooks when traveling on foot orhorsebackthrough the woods or brush is wholly obviated; These objects I secure bymeans of the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective of a legging laced up and fitted to a leg;Fig. 2 is a perspective of such legging partly unlaced and open showinga broad tongue; Fig. 8 is an enlarged sectional perspective detail of alegging showing springs therein broken away; Fig. 4; is a perspective ofa spring showing the curve thereof, and Fig. 5 1s a 7 shown in Fig. 4:these springs are curvedsectional detail of a spring with a punched Ihole therein forming an eyelet.

Similar letters: refer to similar parts throughout the several views,the letter A representing the legging canvas, B a boot or shoe and C astrap by which to buckle and hold the leggingdown.

D D are two metal strips forming springs which are inserted in flap Dand fold D of the canvas or other material. As

7 thereby adapting them to the form of the calf of the leg and aiding inthe legging forming a perfect fit. Said springs are provided withpunched holes d d with which perforations d a? in the canvas flap andfold register to permit a lacing, E, to engage. These springs aresomewhat shorter than the flap and fold that receive themto obviate thelower ends of the springs punching or marring the-wearers shoes, and inplace of the springs I substitute near the bottom of the oppositeflap Dand fold D eyelets or gromets, e e. I

It should be understood that the flap D in the legging is not madefromthe selvage v foldable backward and then forward therei,

by rendering it possible to easily use eye-- lets instead of hooks forlacing up the legging. The punched holes in said spring strips areclenched, as shown in Fig. 5,

thereby preventing the rough or spread edge of the punched holes cuttingthe lacing and rendering substitutes for eyelets.

H H are rivets which are inserted through the spring and canvas near thetop and bottom of the legging to hold the punched holes in the spring inposition'to register with theperforations in the canvas.

I hereby reserve to myself the right to use eyelets, loops or rings inplace of said punched holes and perforations and to make any otherchanges in manufacture. that are purely mechanical."

What I claim and desire to secure byLet ters Patent, is,

A legging comprising a legging body having an opening at onesidethroughout its entire length, the edge portion of said body adjacent thefront side of said opening forming'a front flap andhaving a pocketextending longitudinally thereof through out its length, the other edgeportion of said body forming a tongue arranged to lap behind said frontflap for closing said opening, said body having a rear flap formed atthe juncture of said tongue with saidbody and having a pocket extendinglongitudinally thereof throughout its length, a metal stiffening stripin each of said pockets extending from the upper end of said body andterminating above the lower end thereof, rivets through the ends of saidstrips and through said flaps, each of said flaps having a plurality oflacing In testimony whereof I aflix my signature apertures extendingthrough. tile mieltal in presence of two witnesses.

strip and through the material 0 the ap and a lacing aperture extendingthrough EDWARD DEHLER' the material of the flap below the lower endWitnesses:

of the metal strip, and a lace cord adapted CHAS. A. JOHNSON,

to be laced through said lacing apertures. F. M. LAWLOR.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Eatents,

Washington; D. G.

